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J. W. WHITE. CORN HARVESTER.

No. 573,067. Patented Dec. 15,1896.

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CORN-HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 573,067, dated December5, 1896.

Application filed December 3, 1895. serial No. 570,902. (No modelfl 1'0at! whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES W. \VHITE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lincoin, in the county of Logan and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Corn-Harvesters; and Ido hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention is a corn-harvester; and it consists in the novelconstruction and arrangement of its parts hereinafter set out in thisspecification and the claims hereunto attached.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; and Figs. 3 and 4 aredetail views, Fig. 3 being a top plan View of the float and Fig. 4 beinga bottom plan view of the frame that works upon said float.

My machine will easily cut five acres per day. Two men can run itsteadily, stopping only to dump the shock. It cuts as fast as a team ofhorses will walk without overworking the men, and makes only oneshock-row at the end of the field, thereby leaving the field clear andclean.

My invention is described as follows:

a a is the double tongue, which consists of the poles a. b b are thebreast-pieces, and c c are the singletrees, to which the horses areattached, and d is the doubletree, pivotally secured to thecoupling-tongue cby means of a clip and bolt 6. From each end of thisdoubletree run chains 6 the front ends of which are secured to thesingletrees c c.

To the platforms ff and pointingimvardl y are secured knives g g g.

The poles a are provided at their front ends with strips h 71-, whichturn outwardly and downwardly to pick up down corn. These strips gatherthe corn and pass it backward between the poles a a and the knives g gg, which cut the corn off, while the men, one standing on each of theplatforms f, gather it and throw it upon the frame iiand between On therunning-gear is the standards 3' j j j.

On the upper face of the float Z lis pivoted a turning table Z, and onthe top of the turning table is secured a beam, in each end of which arepivoted roller-wheels Z 1 Fig. 3, and are secured guide-pegs Z Z to keepthe frame i in proper position as it moves to the right or left on thefloat. On the front and rear ends of said float are pivoted two otherroller-wheels m m and on each side of said float are pivoted rollers 41n.

The frame 11, the upper face of which is shown in Fig. 2 and the lowerface by Fig. 4, consists of the side bars 0, provided with the undergrooves 0 and catches 0 the curved end pieces 19, and the intermediatecross-pieces 12.

In practice the frame t is placed on the float, with the roller-wheels Zworking in the grooves 0, the curved pieces p resting on the rollers m.

The operation of my invention is as follows: The team, consisting of twohorses, is driven along one on each side of the row. The corn passesbetween the poles a and is cut off by the knives g. The men take thecorn and throw it up onto the frame 2' and between the standards j.\Vhen the end of the row is reached, the corn is bound, the standards jare taken out of their perforations and the frame is turned around untilthe side bars 0 0 rest on the rollers n. It is then pushed sidewiseuntil arrested by the catchers 0 which come in contact with the rollersn. The other end of the frame is then raised and the corn dumped ontothe ground with its out ends down, and, being a large bundle, it standsalone. 1

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the running-gear 70, body it; float l, secured onthe top of said body, provided with turning table Z, having rollers Zend rollers m, and side rollers n;

frame 2', adapted to work on the upper face pieces 13, substantially asshown and deof said float, substantially as shown and described and forthe purposes set forth. 1o scribed and for the purposes set forth. Intestimony whereof I affix my signature 2. I11 combination with the floatZ, having in presence of two witnesses. 5 the turning table Z, rollers Zm and n, the JAMES \V. HITE.

frame i, consisting of the side bars 0, having \Vitnesses: in theirunder faces the grooves 0, and 7M. J. PEGROM, catches 0 end pieces 1),and intermediate CHARLES T. HOBLIT.

